Our Halloween started with the tiredest Minnie Mouse ever.
Me: Are you sure you want to go to your preschool party today?
Cozy: Yes. Just carry me to car...
...and somehow she manages to be awake and chipper by the time we get there.
I love Halloween.
I love walking around the neighborhood with my kids, everyone is outside and friendly.
I think it's quite nice.
That said, I also find it pretty exhausting. There's so much prep involved. Costumes. Candy. Decorations.
Sometimes I find it all a bit overwhelming. Whine, whine, I know.
In an effort to get past my lazy attitude, I found an easy, fun lunch for Halloween.
We made hotdog mummies from an idea I found on Pinterest.
Cozy loved it, but really just wanted to eat all of the crossoint dough...and make pretend facial hair with it.
She also had a soul patch...and then a beard.
One of my kids didn't quite get the concept and made a pig in a blanket. :)
Ta-da!
My friend Amanda brought us banana ghosts - yum!
...and popcorn hands.
(They were actually kettle corn hands - SO much better!)
The other thing that always sounds like a horrible amount of work to me:
carving pumpkins.
...but, dang it, we grew those pumpkins in our yard, and I did not want them to go to waste!
Anthony said he was just going to read while we carved. (He brought home a giant stack of Manga for the weekend.) ...but he totally made an adorable pumpkin. ...the big cutie.
...and, of course, the little kids were just thrilled with their tiny jack-o-lanterns.
They wouldn't even put them on the porch. I believe they're still playing with them downstairs.
I love this picture of Cozy, looking at James like "you're so clever!"
Both of them knew exactly what they wanted their pumpkin faces to look like.
When I called the kids to carve pumpkins, Cozy ran in saying, "I'm going to carve my butt pumpkin! I'm going to carve my butt pumpkin!"
I said, "Cozy R- you are not carving a butt on your pumpkin! That's gross!"
Then we turned around the tiny pumpkin she got from the pumpkin patch. Yep.
The back looked just like a rear end. I guess that's why she chose it.
Annika, deep in the smolder, with her pumpkin.
...and this is how I found James' pumpkin later. Kinda spooky.
Lastly, Sofia's sad, sad Jack-O-Melon. Another Gravity Falls reference for ya.
(When this pumpkin was first growning, we thought a watermelon vine had volunteered from last year's crop. It looked just like a watermelon...until it turned orange.)
Totally uncarved. I hollowed it out for her and everything, but by the time she got home from play practice, she was too tired to be fun. :( #IhateTheCrucible
Thank you so much for taking the time to document some of the fun times we are missing with your family. You had mentioned earlier in the summer that you had pumpkins growing in your garden but I never heard whether they had survived your long absence. Well done!
ReplyDeleteThank you, thank you, thank you for all the pictures Lia!!Can't believe you guys grew those pumpkins, even being gone for the summer!! Everyone did a great job on theirs......how I love those kids!! Annika got her hair cut! Tell her I like it. By the way I felt the same way at Halloween but its all worth it in the end.....right!
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